On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Jaime Casanova <ja...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: >> Look at other DBMSes: >> Oracle: 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g >> Informix 9, 10, 11 >> MS SQL Server 7, 2000, 2005, 2008 >> >> note the lack of dotes (and even if they actually have dots, those are >> minor versions). >> > > So your proposal is that we name the next release of Postres 9i? >
well, i'm not proposing anything... just showing that our numbering scheme *is* confusing > > In any case those are all marketing brand names. The actual releases > do in fact have real version numbers and no, they aren't all minor > releases. Oracle 8i was 8.1.x which was indeed a major release over > 8.0. > Maybe we can give marketing brand names to every new version so people is not confused by numbers... -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
